Somewhat agreed. I believe WOTC is trying to shift its demographics to EDH players more, leading to those clunky but quite powerful cards like god cycle and others.

Realistically a smart move, it's the most popular format outside of standard and limited (I believe) and people will play those regardless of what's put out. Why cater to smaller group of players? Especially from a secondary market POV they have no need to create legacy or modern bombs that aren't applicable in standard, they sell packs not singles. That being said, I wish the reserved list was gone.

Realistically a smart move, it's the most popular format outside of standard and limited (I believe) and people will play those regardless of what's put out. Why cater to smaller group of players? Especially from a secondary market POV they have no need to create legacy or modern bombs that aren't applicable in standard, they sell packs not singles. That being said, I wish the reserved list was gone.

The reserved list is good and fair. Reprinting highly valued broken cards can kill the game. Players and resellers do care about their possession's values and you don't want to anger both who are the core of the buyers. I know it first-handed because one of older CCGs I used to play heavily died this way.

I used to play when i was younger and thought I would get into it, so bought a starter, box of boosters for the 2015 core set and than a box of the newest Dragons of Tarkir set. This was february/march...and ever since opening the cards they have just been sitting there. lol